"My personal bet would be on our usefulness being the best bargaining chip. But I am disinclined to trust justice systems as a whole. I've been on the wrong side of enough of them to know there is no balance to them. And...the fact that they've allowed us to live, that they're keeping us fed, that implies they have some use for us."

But he's working more from his gut than any usable information about their kidnappers here.